A Sea Turtle Rescued Against Its Will

A LADY saw a ranger handling a three-hundred-pound loggerhead sea turtle. These are huge turtles, these loggerheads by the sea, and this particular turtle was just laying eggs. She became somewhat disoriented, and began walking in the wrong direction, not toward the sea but farther into the sand dunes.

So the ranger came and pried her from the ground, flipping her over onto her back. The ranger put chains around the loggerhead’s legs, hooked it onto his vehicle, and drug it back to the sea. When he finally got to the edge of the water, he unhooked the animal, the loggerhead saw where it was, and it went out into the sea.

I’m sure, when the loggerhead was being chained and drug, it was hard for it to understand what was happening. Sometimes it’s hard to know whether you are being killed or saved by the hand of the one turning your life upside down. When you are on your back being turned every which way but loose, you don’t know whether God is doing you in or delivering you.

When He puts you to lie there, you don’t know which way is up, and you are lying flat on your back. Guess what, sometimes God makes us to lie down. God will take the credit for putting us on our backs to fix whatever is wrong and make us totally anemic within ourselves. He will put us in a place where there’s only room for one God.